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A thousand ridiculous accidents needed to happen in the unlikeliest of sequences for it to be possible, but absent a dramatic turn of events – an early primary catastrophe, Mike Bloomberg ego-crashing the race, etc. – this boorish, monosyllabic TV tyrant with the attention span of an Xbox-playing 11-year-old really is set to lay waste to the most impenetrable oligarchy the Western world ever devised.
It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go.
And Trump is no half-bright con man, either. He's way better than average.
It should not surprise anyone when today's capitalists try to weaken the middle class because if weakened enough they are no longer the majority. When the middle class is NOT the majority then the POOR class becomes the majority. That is dangerous because if the POOR become the majority then the economy is BOUND BY nothing more exotic than simple ARITHMETIC to go either in the direction of FASCISM OR COMMUNISM. There is no getting around this because regular capitalism backed by democracy is NO LONGER SUSTAINABLE under an oligarchy, because the poor no longer possess enough capital to keep it sustainable.
Ergo Trump can only be pointing us in either the direction of communism or fascism. It can almost be proven with a mathematical formula if the right economists wish to fire up their computatin and cipherin muh-sheens.
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A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
But maybe all of his supporters WANT a shmuck to be President? I'm not sure you can interpret the facts any other way.
Terrific for Democrats though, that the Republican Party has finally decided they can't win due to the demographics so they might as well throw some monkey wrenches in the works.
I've never really understood how so many people get taken in by obvious charlatans and con men. Trump has been exactly that for decades. He has no real talent, is not really a particularly savvy businessman, and is such an obvious boor. He started with loads of money, got handed the famiy business early, and nearly bankrupted it twice within the first 10 years. Why would anyone want such a failed businessman in charge of PUBLIC funds?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
Why would anyone want such a failed businessman in charge of PUBLIC funds?
Because he has mastered the authoritarian strongman role so completely that he is now a more talented actor than Ronald Reagan ever dreamed he could be. He's the master showman and I wouldn't be surprised if an outfit like Rand Corp models it as a psyop product in the near future.
If you can package something like this, global corporate oligarchy is a lead pipe cinch.
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A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
I certainly support him as the Republican candidate, just because he would be very easy to beat. But at this point, I suspect any of the Republicans would be very easy to beat. I sometimes wonder if he is actually doing all of this to insure Hillary wins. Like a Springtime for Hitler candidacy.
